ῥῆγ-μα,ατος,τό, (ῥήγνυμι)
A. breakage, fracture, joined withσπάσμα, Hp.
Aër.
4 , cf. D. 18.198 , Dsc. 3.74 ; withστρέμμα(a strain), D. 2.21 , 11.14 .
2. laceration, rupture, Gal. 10.160 , 18(2).882 , cf. Arist. HA 635a4 .
3. rent, tear, in clothes, Archipp. 38 .
4. cleft, chasm, ῥ. τῆς γῆς
Arist. HA 628b29
;chink, ἐν τοίχοις
Plb. 13.6.8
;breachin a dyke, PLond. 1.131r . 45 , 60
(i A.D.).
II. lesionorruptureof tissue, ὅταν ὑπὸ βίης διαστέωσιν αἱ σάρκες ἀπ' ἀλλήλων
Hp. Flat. 11
, cf. Gal. 1.238 , 10.232 ; esp. oflung, Hp. Loc.Hom. 14 , Morb. 1.20 :henceῥηγμᾰτίας,ου,ὁ,one who has such a rupture, Id.Aër.